The music portion of Saturday’s X Games Austin provided a fitting soundtrack to action sports with appropriately selected heavyweights in hip-hop, punk and indie rock to represent the lifestyle. Music, skateboarding, BMX and motocross go hand in hand, and the organizers of this year’s event in Austin perfectly resurrected the feeling many had when playing the old Tony Hawk video games with the musical guests booked for Saturday.

Headliner Kanye West didn’t disappoint with a crowd-pleasing performance that concentrated more on the rawness and his high-energy performance than the theatrics that usually accompany a Kanye West show. West frantically rocked the stage, sometimes in a chainmail mask atop the mountain-shaped stage props, to an endless crowd that had viewers from the stands, side concessions and atop ramps. West worked in all the hits along with a heavy dose of tracks from the eccentric “Yeezus.” West pulled out some surprises with “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” and “POWER” relatively early in the set. “Good Life” and “Bound” closed the night.

On the flip side , Mac Miller , who opened for West, put on one of the low lights of the night with his lowest-common denominator brand of hip-hop.The capacity crowd who was there for Miller, were mostly just trying to get a good spot for West, who went on a mere eight minutes after scheduled.

No act could be as fitting on the X Games as Bad Religion. The legendary punk band helped build the bridge between the skate boarding and punk rock scenes in the 1980s. Bad Religion played a lengthy, career-spanning set with “I Want To Conquer The World,” “No Control,” You,” “True North” and “Do What You Want” as highlights.

You could say Wavves could be considered a new wave skateboard music. The band’s buzzy, post-garage rock was a fitting way to start the day. “Bug” and “Idiot” were nice representations of Wavves’ sound.